Cendrillon - Royal Oper House
8.2
Massenet composed his opera about Cenerentola nearly 80 years after Rossini did his. And if you are looking for the outburst of the non-stop hilarity and the musical jokes of Rossini, you won't find it here. Also, while the Cendrillon was highly successful and popular in its time, it does not reach up to the artistic and musical levels offered by Massenet's other operas, like Manon, or Thais or Werther. Nevertheless, this is a delightful opera and it is well presented by The Royal Opera. Laurent Pelly created a ingenious setting with movable walls which are covered [in French] with the story of Cinderella, and which open and close book-like.
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Joyce DiDonato
Cendrillon / Lucette
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Eglise Gutiérrez
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Alice Coote
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Ewa Podleś
Madame de la Haltière, stepmother of Cendrillon
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Aria Diva
La Fille du Régiment
Jean-Philippe Lafont
Pandolfe, Cendrillon’s father
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Babette's Feast
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Madeleine Pierard
Noémie, stepsister of Cendrillon
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Kai Rüütel
Dorothée, stepsister of Cendrillon
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Kaufmann's Otello at the Royal Opera House
The Flying Dutchman: Teatro Real Madrid
Jeremy White
Le Roi
Also in
Royal Opera House: Tosca
Turnage: Anna Nicole
Harry Nicoll
Le Doyen de la Faculté
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Kurt Weill: Street Scene
Dawid Kimberg
Le Surintendant des plaisirs
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John-Owen Miley-Read
Le Premier Ministre
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Adrien Mastrosimone
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Laurent Pelly Director · Olivier Simonnet Director Henri Cain Writer
First release July 5, 2011 · Produced in United Kingdom · Production Royal Opera House
Production
Virgin Records
Production
Royal Opera House
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United Kingdom
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Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
United Kingdom · July 5, 2011
Limited theatrical · Live performance
No release date listed for United States.
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